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Thursday 21 January 2021
Cybersecurity firm: Booting hackers a complex chore

By FRANK BAJAK cause many victims still
AP Technology Writer can’t figure out what the
BOSTON (AP) — Efforts to attackers have done and
assess the impact of a thus “may not feel they
more than seven-month- have an obligation to re-
old cyberespionage cam- port on it,” said Carmakal.
paign blamed on Russia “This threat actor is so
— and boot the intruders — good, so sophisticated,
remain in their early stages, so disciplined, so patient
says the cybersecurity firm and so elusive that it’s just
that discovered the attack. hard for organizations to re-
The hack has badly shaken ally understand what the
the U.S. government and scope and impact of the
private sector. intrusions are.
The firm, FireEye, released But I can assure you there
a tool and a white paper are a lot of victims beyond
Tuesday to help potential what has been made pub-
victims scour their cloud- lic to date,” Carmakal said.
based installations of Mi- On top of that, he said, the
crosoft 365 — where users’ hackers “will continue to
emails, documents and obtain access to organiza-
collaborative tools reside tions. There will be new vic-
— to determine if hackers tims.”
broke in and remain active. This Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 file photo shows FireEye offices in Milpitas, Calif. Microsoft disclosed on Dec.
The aim is not just to ferret Associated Press 31 t hat the hackers had

out and evict the hackers including the departments warebytes announced into an update of network viewed some of its source
but to keep them from be- of Commerce, Treasury, that it was among the vic- management software first code. It said it found “no in-
ing able to re-enter, said Justice and federal courts. tims — and said it was com- pushed out last March by dications our systems were
Matthew McWhirt, the ef- Also compromised, said promised through the very Texas-based SolarWinds. used to attack others.” On
fort’s team leader. FireEye chief technical of- Microsoft email system the “We continue to learn Tuesday, Malwarebytes
“There’s a lot of specific ficer Charles Carmakal, FireEye tool aims to button about new victims almost said it had determined that
things you have to do — we are dozens of private sec- down. every day. I still think that “the attacker only gained
learned from our investiga- tor targets with a high con- The intruders have stealth- we’re still in the early days access to a limited sub-
tions — to really eradicate centration in the software ily scooped up intelligence of really understanding the set of internal company
the attacker,” he said. industry and Washington for months, carefully choos- scope of the threat-actor emails” and said the con-
Since FireEye disclosed its D.C. policy-oriented think ing targets from the roughly activity,” said Carmakal. duit — Microsoft’s Azure
discovery in mid-Decem- tanks. 18,000 customers infected The public has not heard cloud services — are not
ber, infections have been On Tuesday, the security with malicious code they much about who exactly used in its software produc-

found at federal agencies software company Mal- activated after sneaking it was compromised be- tion environments. q

By Dave Green GM teams up with Microsoft on
2 5 driverless cars

6 5 4 By MATT OTT late last year to test its au- nology company Zoox,

1 6 2 AP Business Writer tomated vehicles in San which is developing an
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Francisco without backup autonomous vehicle for a
9 3 5 General Motors is teaming drivers. Auto companies ride-hailing service.Mass
up with Microsoft to ac-
have been joining forces adoption of driverless ve-
4 6 celerate its rollout of elec- and bringing technology hicles — and profits — are
tric, self-driving cars. In the firms on board to try to still a ways off, said indus-
8 2 7 2021 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. partnership announced spread out the enormous try analyst Sam Abuel-
Tuesday, the companies costs -- and by nature, risks samid of Guidehouse In-
4 7 8 said Microsoft’s Azure -- of developing self-driv- sights. “The reality is that
cloud and edge comput-
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the automated driving
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longer to mature that had
used to “commercialize its project with GM, Volk-
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